The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-12

Incredible as 1t may seem, the aVoWed
purpose was.
TO DELUGE THE CITY IN BLOOD
of the property owning classes, first destroy
ing the police and militia, who were derided
as their special champions. The period of
confusion developing from the mammoth
strikes of May |, 1886, was definitely an
nounced months before as the time when the
fearful bolt should fall. Pitiless as was this
programme and difficult as a belief is that
it ever was contemplated by men, the facts
as stated were abundantly proven in court.
The diabolism was fully shared in by
women. Especially so was this the case in
the
FANTASTIC PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS,
like the red-fag procession of ragamuffins
with torches that attempted at night to en-
| ter the magnificent new Board of Trade
when the dedication festivities of the insti-
! tuition had for the time being transformed
the huge building into a scene of social bril-
| lance without a local precedent. The re-
pulsive, disappearing intruders of both
sexes were sternly forced back at the
muzzles Of three dozen police revolvers. In
affairs like this the dusky wife of
Parsons, and other no less desperate
| women seemed in their proper element
| OF the many other queer outbreaks preced-
ing the Haymarket tragedy, the most
startling at the time, perhaps, was the pa
rade Thanksgiving day, when, in ridicule Of
! President Clevelands proclamation, nearly
thousand uncouth men and women Of the
| slums, headed by banners of black and red,
traversed the choice residence avenues wildly
yelling and soothing at the well-dresSed peo-
pie who crowded TO the windows, anxious
to learn the cause of tumult.
The city authorities affected for some
reason to ignore all ebullitionS of the mob.
As result of this
OFFICIAL INDIFFERENCE,
when the time came at last for the eight
hour labor disturbance and the simuta-
neous Inauguration Of the secretly cherished
revolution" the Anarchists were power
indeed, and the police were ignorant of
danger. 1t is true that the Chicago papers
contained timely intimations of the plots,
but owing to the peculiar attitude OF the
high municipal authorities, the articles
were treated as rank sensationaism.
Just one day before the time set for the
strikes, Louis Lingg, the bomb-maker, slip
ped into his lodgings a heavy, suspicious
looking box, feet in length. The box con
tanned large invoice of dynamite Its
delivery at Lingg's lodgings was the first
immediate preparation for
THE BLOODY RESULT
of five days later. For many weeks pre-
vious Lingg had been purchasing and ex-
perimenting with dynamite as the paid
agent of one of the seven International
groups but subsequent events showed be-
yond any reasonable doubt that this par
ticular explosive made the bomb that was
heard round the world. The bomb was, with
fifty others, manufactured by Lingg under
the auspices of the International ASsocia-
ton, which furnished the money, and of
which the celebrated defendants were not
members simply but leaders.
Next day, May /, the eight-hour strikes
began in earnest, and by nightfall when the
first intelligent estimates were obtainable,
$4,000 men walked the streets idle. Pcompt-
ly in the morning, Sunday, when the
churches throughout the city were resound-
ing with the swelling hosannas, the stutfy
little Bohemian Hall on Emma street was
crowded with members of
THE LEHR AND WEIR vEREIN.
an inner circle of the omnipresent Inter-
national. Detailed plans for the near-at-
hand conflict with the police were submit
ted by Editor Engel and listened to by Spies
lieutenant, Fischer. These plans were the
ones followed almost to the letter at the
Haymarket, but the decision to do so was
not reached at this meeting. Instead it was
determined to take action at another gath
ering of the Lehr and Weir, in larger
nall and more central location, to be assem-
bled within twenty-four hours. This was
to be in Greif's Hall, Monday night,
May 3.
The Arbeiter Zeitung, of which Spies and
Schwab were the editors and managers
called together the armed men who were to
engage in this
SPECIFIC COMPACT TO MURDER.
The Sunday evening edition, published a
few hours after the Bohemian Hall meet
ing, contained this cabalstic legend; 'Y
-Komme Montag Abend.n (Y-Come
Monday Night. This was the summons
TO the armed sections to meet, as they did,
Monday night at Greifs. The cali was
published again Monday afternoon, indi-
eating the Importance of the matters to
come before the meeting. The Sunday
issue of the A1'beiter had a significant aIti-
Gle urging quick and immediate action"
adding: by Monday or Tuesday the con-
tict must hare reached its highest inten-
sitg, else success ,UiH then be doubtful"
Almost before the ink on this could dry
Spies was at the Sunday afternoon meeting
OF the Central Labor Union arranging to
have himself dispatched to McCormicks
factory the following day to address the
thousands of strikers out along the old
Black road.
From the top of a freight car, on the
prairie near McCormick's, next afternoon
Monday-Spies belched into the ears of
1900 excited strikers, mostly foreigners,
the hottest harangue ever uttered by him
in public. He spoke in the German Ian
guage, of which he is more master even
than of English. The effect of his words
was like magic.
ION TO M'CoRNIICKSn
was the cry. The maddened horde, urged
forward by Spies, Lingg and other daring
Anarchists present, rushed at the great
factory like so many wild beasts. They
had caught up powders and clubs on the
way, and in an instant the thousand win
dows of the factory were being shivered
in countless fragments Then it was that
patrol wagons, loaded with police, the
horses covered with foam, dashed through
the crowd from behind. 1t is admit
ted by Spies that he ordered the
mob, many of whom were flour
ishing revolvers, to resist the attempt
of the police to quell the riot. OF course
the victors were the police, but that to Spies,
according to his own accounts, was not of
main concern. The blood of workingmen
had been drawn, and when he satisfied him
self that such result was produced, the
Anarchist leader coolly withdrew, though
the battle was at its height.
Taking a street car direct to the Ar6eiter
Zeitung Office, Spies, after hurried consul
tation with Schwab, Neebe and others, de-
cided to call the Haymarket mass meeting.
and then wrote
THE INFAMOUS REVENGE CIRCULAR
Twenty-Five hundred copies were issued
as quickly as printers could work and